Nearby Lebanon, TN continues to work on their Gasification Initiative while Rutherford County looks for solutions on what to do the Middle Point Landfill that is nearing the end of its lifespan.

Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron said that Gasification would be a project that would ultimately prove too costly...

Lebanon officials tout that their Gasification Initiative will divert over 16,000,000 pounds of waste from landfills every year. However, the change will likely come at a large cost to citizens in the future which has not been fully discussed in Wilson County.